Ullmann to the rescue. We’re indifferent to analog computers like Detroit was once with electric cars.
Ahhh, Vaxman still up to his usual shenannigans :-)
Readit NewsLocutus_ commented on Reconfigurable Analog Computers arxiv.org/abs/2510.25942... · Posted by u/gidellav
I ran into memory issues with a high-load project so I built a compact binary encoder/decoder for Pydantic models. It cut in-RAM object size by up to 7× vs json.dumps(), and ended up saving the whole service from collapsing.
GitHub: https://github.com/sijokun/PyByntic
Works with annotated Pydantic models and gives you: – .serialize() -> bytes – .deserialize(bytes) -> Model
Curious to hear whether others here have hit similar problems and how you solved it?
P.S. Project was a Telegram MiniApp with 10m+ MAU, we were storing cached user objects in Redis Cluster
I've had exactly the same situation, ~2M MAU service with REDIS as the only persistence system, all data being JSON serialized Pydantic models. The storage overhead was just terrible and cost real money.
This would have been a super nice to have back then.
I wonder though how much sense it would make to get something like this mainlined into upstream Pydantic? as having this downstream would give many continuity and dependency lock concerns. And having it as part of the main library would significantly drive adoption rate.
Locutus_ commented on Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language kaitai.io/... · Posted by u/djoldman
How is the write support now-adays, is it production quality now?
I used Kaitai in a IoT project for building data ingress parsers and it was great. But not having write support was a bummer.
I'll do you one better -- a free QNX 8.0 image ready to flash on a Pi 4! Can also be adapted to Pi 400 and CM4.
https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/qnxeverywhere/com.qnx.do...
I honestly zoned out when I saw how many and what steps where required before just wget'ing a image file.
Sorry, nope.
Locutus_ commented on Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust blog.startifact.com/posts... · Posted by u/robin_reala
Locutus_ commented on Stelvio: Serverless AWS for Python Devs github.com/michal-stlv/st... · Posted by u/milsebg
This also seems a bit like AWS Chalice reinvented, which might be a good thing as AWS has silently abandoned it.
Locutus_ commented on More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX) oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/classichasclass
This is an enormous article, filled with everything - DEC history, ads from period IT mags, pictures of fabled hardware, reminiscing, hardware restoration.
Great read, but I honestly had wished the author had split it into several separate articles.
I had this literally happen to me a couple of months ago.
Slacking off while waiting for some performance tests to run (Shoutout to Locust.io!) with my big 27" screen full of terminals for each runner, server logs etc.
...And then on my laptop screen I honestly was just slacking off and reading Reddit.
'VP Of Technology' comes over "I dont know what you are doing, but it's the most impressive thing I've seen in a while".
...Yes sir!
Locutus_ commented on Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps connection? · Posted by u/xeonmc
Provision a VPS/VM/Cloud instance/etc, install your dev tools on it and use it over mush.
And remember for things like looking up git commands or even a lot of your dependency documentation, you do not need a web browser. Git comes with manpages, many libraries will have docs in .md or whatever in them.